I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.

If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast.That woman could not make toast.

Unreasonable, " "unrealistic, " and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .